The Right Stuff

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Here is one of the great shots in American cinema, and it comes in the first five minutes of The Right Stuff, one of the great American epics:

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That’s Chuck Yeager on his horse looking at and passing by the X-1, one of the most advanced pieces of transportation equipment man had created up to that point. The rugged individual, the cowboy, and the high-tech instrument of man, together.

That really does crystalize into an image what the Right Stuff actually is, according to the movie and its w...